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A lockout is looming over MLB in December 2026, with a salary cap fight possibly at the center
Major League Baseball faces a potential lockout in December 2026. Players and management have long clashed over salary cap ...
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MLB Chief Warns of Crisis as Low-Spending Teams Threaten Balance
ERAs and batting averages don't convey the whole story. The post MLB Commissioner Sounds Alarm on Low-Spending Teams Amid Competitive Balance Crisis appeared first on EssentiallySports.
Pirates are being leveraged by both sides in MLB's economics debate
As is usually the case around the All-Star break, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred pops up quite a bit with ...
MLB is ‘thriving’ — but it may not be enough to thwart a potential lockout
Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agree that the game is doing well. And yet the two sides are headed for ...
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MLB weighs a salary cap as potential lockout looms in 2026
For decades, Major League Baseball has stood alone among the major U.S. sports leagues as the only one without a salary cap. Team owners may test that dynamic at the end of next year. Get top ...
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MLB Wanted A Salary Cap For Decades; Now With Soaring Revenues, They'd ...
The History Of MLB’s Owners Seeking A Salary Cap. Since the 1980s, the owners had sought a salary cap. In 1985 then commissioner Peter Ueberroth chided the owners for seeking one saying that ...
Players' Association spin on MLB salary cap easily disproven by growth, success of other leagues
MLBPA executive director Tony Clark says a salary cap system is not about growing the game. If that were true, why are all ...
Live from Atlanta: The next front in the war between MLB owners and players
Why aren't developments around stadiums considered in team revenue? It's one of the challenges in negotiating a collective bargaining agreement.